Appeal No. 1999-0930
Application 08/410,931
Claims 7 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Gueret in view of Buehrer, Bell,
and Kitamura, as applied above, further in view of Yokosuka.
The full text of the examiner's rejections and response
to the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer
(Paper No. 30), while the complete statement of appellant’s
argument can be found in the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos.
29 and 31).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellant’s specification and claims, the applied
patents, and 2
2In our evaluation of the applied references, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each document for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art.
See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA
1966). Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into
account not only the specific teachings, but also the
inferences which one skilled in the art would reasonably have
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